Title skips the part that says “Let them take out (the cities)”
Fucking idiot.
“President Donald Trump suggested that Iran could “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego if it were allowed to develop a nuclear weapon, drawing condemnation from California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, who called the remarks “deranged and dangerous.”
San Diego is the home of the pacific fleet, second largest US navel base. It is also home of Camp Pendleton, west coast headquarters for the marine corps. Between San Diego and Los Angeles is the Seal Beach Navel Weapons station, a major munitions depot.
What a fucking moron.
And is filled with veterans.
So fuck them again / more I guess.
Major sanewashing here. What he was saying was that he’d be fine with it, and his bloodthirsty, genocidal fans cheered him for it.
Didn’t this fucker already threaten to nuke LA himself?
Trump is way more of a threat to LA than Iran ever could be.
If Greenland becomes a super power with nuclear weapons, they could fire those nukes at the entire US… Wherever you live, this could effect you. You could say Greenland may be the greatest threat the world has ever seen, posing as a small incapable region of Denmark.
This is why I have decided to preemptively send troops and private oil companies in to stop this. I’m calling it my big beautiful invasion, it’s gonna be peaceful and we’re gonna make them pay for it.
Guess who’s gonna pay me to invade them? I have all these guys, big business guys, they’re oil guys so they’re all really rich… And they’re saying to me “Mr. Trump! Mr.Trump! It’s okay Mr. Trump, we’ll pay for it”.
I’m kidding! He doesn’t talk this way anymore. These days he gurgles and sounds like a dementia patient who just shat his pants…
…because he’s a dementia patient who’s just shat his pants. He’s also ALWAYS BEEN an overtly corrupt insider. Voters just didn’t realize it because they were upset at the establishment system and desperately wanted something different!
Republicans are motivated by fear, and lack the empathy to realize other people think differently.
It’s why with 5 minutes of training you can determine political party affiliation with like 80% accuracy in a count that has lower that 80% voter turnout.
It’s not a permanent difference, even well into your 60s it can change.
But that’s why Trump thinks this would gain votes in Cali, they assume if Dems are afraid they’ll vote R. Which did kind of happen after 9/11. But a hypothetical isn’t going to be the same.
If I survive to see a day when this sad excuse for an ape loses its ability to convert oxygen to carbon dioxide at will, the wave of relief and joy I’ll feel will be tantalizing. I’ve never been great at delayed satisfaction, but in this case it’ll be well worth it.
It’s going to be the biggest spontaneous global party in living memory.
Can’t wait to see the conservatives crying about ‘decorum’ and ‘respect’ while people from Chicago to Cairo are dancing in the street at the news.
A fascist strongman wants few things more than an attack that kills many but is ultimately economically superficial.
Edit: damn, LA’s GDP is $1.7T. I still stick by my statement. Mr $2.5T debt a year would probably be excited at the faster timeline to crash the dollar. Most dictators want to maintain their country. trump does not.
If LA were to get hit basically all shipments via the Pacific (China, Japan, Korea) will get absolutely FUBAR’d. LA/LB are the top two US ports. Period. It’s a huge complex that would take I’d guess a decade of very diligent work to build something like it again; if a suitable location could even be found.
If SD gets hit our Navy is fucked. Pendleton is massive in scope and scale. If you drive down the 5 from OC to SD you’re surrounded by military owned land for the majority of the drive.
CA is the WORLD’s 4th larger economy. If CA gets hit it would create such a fundamental change to the US that it might not survive.
I completely agree.
The magnitude of destruction at an attack like that would be exactly what trump’s techbro handlers are looking for. They want to split the US into several fiefdoms, each ruled by a tech demigod.
This is why trump is “paradoxically” running the country he “wants to be dictator of” into the ground.
They’d take out DC first, and maybe Mar-a-lago for funzies.
Keep in mind the source of this brilliant idea comes from trump - Iran’s leadership are by and large evil bastards, but they’re not anything like as stupid as that orange clown; there’s no world where Iran would attack the US mainland, because they’re relying on the vast lack of US political will to continue to keep trump’s wild despotic aspirations in check. Obliterating LA would similarly obliterate the hesitation to endanger US assets, and would end very badly for everyone involved.
Yeah, and so could Papa New Guinea. Turns out you can say any kind of random bullshit.
